Hair-fastener.



No. 672,8l6. Patented Apr. 23, 190i.

- L. BASSETT.

HAIR F'ASTENEB.

(Application filed Nov. 22, 1900.

(No model.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT FFIGE.

LOTTIE BASSETT, OF CEDARVILLE, CALIFORNIA.

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SPECIFICATION forming part Of Letters Patent N 0. 672,816, dated April 23, 1901.

Application filed November 22, 1900. Serial No. 37,331. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LOTTIE BASSETT, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Oedarville, in the county of Modoc and State of California, have invented a new and Improved Hair-Olamp, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The purpose of this invention is to provide a device which may be attached to the hair when braided and serve not only to tie the hair tightly and preventitsunbraiding, but also to carry a ribbon or bow, so that the ribbon may be permanently attached to the clamp, thus avoiding the necessity of frequently tying and untying the ribbon.

This specification is a specific description of one form of the invention, while the claim is a definition of the actual scope thereof.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forminga part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a view showing a hair-braid with my invention applied. Fig. 2 is a View of the back of the clamp applied to the hair. Fig. 3 is a view showing the clamp open and the ribbon indicated by dotted lines, and Fig. 4C is a sectional view of the clamp.

The clamp comprises a front or main part in the form of a plate a, with slots at therein to facilitate tying a bow of ribbon to the clamp. If desired, the bow may also be stitched to the clamp; but this is not absolutely necessary. The upper edge of the plate of the pin 1) is adapted to engage in keepers ofiformed at the lower edge of the plate a, and in applying the device the hair is wound in and out through the serpentine pin 5, as indicated in Fig. 2, and the free end of the pin is engaged between the keepers a To detach the device, it is only necessary to apply the finger-nail to the offset portion 19 at the free end of the pin b, pushing the same toward the bearing a or the upper end of the plate a, thus disengaging the free end of the pin from the keepers a Owing to the form of the pin 5 the hair may be engaged therewith, as explained, the acute bends in the pin acting to keep the hair in engagement with the pin.

This device firmly holds the braided hair and prevents the braid from coming undone. It also attaches the ribbon to the hair, so that the ribbon cannot be lost, and when it is desired to undo the hair it is only necessary to remove the hair-clamp, rather than to nntie the ribbon forming the bow.

Various changes in the form, proportions, and minor details of my invention may be resorted to without departing from the spirit of my invention. Hence I consider myself entitled to all such variations as may lie within the scope of my claim.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent A hair-clamp, comprising a flat body provided at one edge with a bearing and at the opposite edge with a keeper and a serpentine pin, the transverse portions of the bends in the pin lying practically at right angles to the longitudinal line of the pin, for the purpose specified one end of the pin being mounted loosely in the bearing and the other end of which is arranged reinovably to engage the keeper, the pin lying directly adjacent to the body in a plane parallel therewith when engaged with the keeper so that the hair may be passed through the bends in the pin and held pressed against'the body to keep the clamp engaged with the hair.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

LOTTIE BASSETT.

Witnesses:

WM. T. CRESSLER, J. H. BONNER. 

